Genuinely curious, what makes PHP so easy?

nathancahill · on March 15, 2016

On the most basic level: Most shared hosting supports PHP out of the box. FTP files over, and done. Also, PHP can be run by loading a URL and returning HTML, no framework required.

On a higher level: It's much harder to get right.

collyw · on March 15, 2016

Once you have a Python environment set up its just a matter of copying files over as well for an upgrade, so I guess a lot of it is down to web server configuration.

nathancahill · on March 16, 2016

In what environment?

collyw · on March 25, 2016

That has applied to Apache and Nginx configurations that I have used.

Git pull and the code is updated. Restart the web server and you are good to go.